Team IMPACT connects children facing serious or chronic illnesses with college athletic teams, forming lifelong bonds and life-changing outcomes. Through Team IMPACT, a child battling illness becomes an official (non-playing) member of a college athletic team, attending practices, games, team dinners and more. After two years with the team, the child graduates from the program with demonstrated improvements in their optimism, confidence and sense of belonging. Parents and siblings gain a community of support and a distraction from medical realities, and student athletes gain invaluable inspiration and perspective that will be carried with them long after graduation.
Children with chronic or life-threatening illness are repeatedly exposed to trauma. By providing the foundation for children to build safe and supportive relationships, Team IMPACT provides an empowering and future-oriented program to promote healthy social and emotional development.
Not just making any match. Making the perfect match!
Clinically-informed support ensures that everyone wins.
Therapeutic outcomes are achieved in a non-therapeutic setting.
Graduating from the program with a sense of empowerment, normalization, health promotion, and resilience.
The solidarity of a group provides the strongest protection against despair and the strongest antidote to traumatic experience. Trauma isolates; the group re-creates a sense of belonging.
Judith Herman MD / Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical SchoolProvide your child with a team of support that extends beyond their medical care.
Families Join the programOn and off the court/field/pitch/mat, student athletes are leaders. Our program makes them great leaders.
TeamsTogether we can make a difference. Your generous support helps us empower future generations of champions to lead with empathy, inclusion and resiliency.
